 hey there friends thanks for checking in today we're looking at the HK45 full-size handgun I mentioned I acquired this in a trade a couple weeks ago very happy with it I traded the Glock 21 and a Remington RM384 the HK45 no regrets there good deal all around but this is a nice handgun no question about it love HK pistols on the pricey side no doubt about that the MSRP on this is 849 it's selling for over a grand in today's crazy stupid market but it does offer a lot of pistol you know for what you what you get it's it's pretty impressive now it does come with two 10 round magazines an additional back strap HK says this is improved over the USP models and one of the things that they make real nice is the ergonomics this has somewhat of a p30 grip feel to it you know the texturing it does not have interchangeable grip panels like the p30 models but it does have an interchangeable back strap a full pick rail on there and two 10 round magazines now they also make this a compact model HK45C compact with a just under a four inch barrel eight round magazines the 10 round mags will fit in that that one this is considered full-size you're looking at a 4.5 inch barrel and you can see it is a full-size pistol no doubt about that it does have the ambidextrous trigger guard magazine release right people either love it or hate it I don't mind it you know I had several guns that use that and it's also fully ambidextrous so not only is that ambidextrous but so is the slide stop or slide release however you want to say it left lefties like that it's a variant one now if this was a p30 or p2000 it would be considered a variant three but with the usp and the HK45 miles it's a variant one double action single action so here we're looking at a single action trigger pull looking at right around four and a quarter pounds with a reset right there no problem with the trigger pull it's actually really nice full-size handgun you get a great feel it is really soft shooting you know they they say they use a reduced recoil system and I'm going to show the internal shortly but before we do that let's check out these sites three dot luminescent sights once charged by light they really glow like brighter than night sights they just come out at you and that's really nice but if it's not charged by light initially then you're not going to get that luminescent effect it also has a thumb safety decocker so here you can safely decock the gun by pushing that lever down if you want to carry it cocked and locked you can do that that will lock up the trigger but it will not lock up the slide four and four point five inch polygonal rifled barrel a lot of room in the trigger guard does have some some serrations up there here to look at the business end of it polymer frame they call it enforced polymer frame that is is really nice HK does a great job with ergos they really do and I've often said that they're just too expensive every HK I've ever acquired was from trade so you know paying those outrageous prices with so many other choices out there is kind of crazy 1 pound 11 and a half ounces we move that to just ounces 27 and a half throwing empty mag on there 31 in a quarter here we have a full mag 10 rounds 45 you're looking at 38 and three quarters how about that carry carry around it's slipping off there well what's going on here okay so just under 40 ounces so you know you don't want a real light gun when you're talking about a full size 45 now I know some people carry this there's some people out there they carry everything you know 1911s Glock 17 like people carry large handguns and many people would carry this a little too hefty for my carry preference it is a nice handgun shoots great love the way it fires I took it out of the box and I was so pleased with the way it performed at the range let's go ahead and disassemble this a little bit different we already checked clear here we'll do that again all you're gonna do is move the slide back to this point on the opposite side that pin right there you're going to push it out and remove it and then remove the slide from the frame here you go lightweight polymer frame double action single action variant one here we have a single recoil spring HK puts that that ring around there I guess that's part of the recoil reduction system and here's your 4.5 inch barrel fits kind of tight polygonal rifle barrel right nice nice look very well machined no problem with that with HK that's for sure I've had several and I have no complaints with the performance of the pistols my complaint is with the price of the pistols so hopefully that will change sometime in the future then we're just going to put this back in place the pin in there first and then move the slide back find that sweet spot there it is and there it is HK 45 full size model 10 round magazines nice ergos nice shooting gun definitely a keeper you know a lot of people own the HK models they keep them for a real long time they like the quality of them I I fall into that camp you know it's just how you are going to acquire them is the issue if you like videos like this please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button thanks for watching and you guys be safe